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[1735] 2 Elchies 414
Subject_1 PACTUM ILLICITUM.
Date: Journeymen Tailors
v.
The Master Tailors of Edinburgh and Canongate
18 June 1735
Case No.No. 5.
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Journeymen Tailors having entered into a combination not to work under a certain high rate, the Magistrates imprisoned them in the Correction House; which being complained of, many of the Lords thought the imprisonment in the Correction House warrantable by the act 1661 anent Justices, joined with act 1672 erecting the Correction House; but the point was not determined; and the Lords remitted to the Magistrates of Edinburgh to make regulations of the journeymen tailors wages.
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